around 3 or 4 years ago myself and two film-maker friends of mine - Rhodri Thomas and Stephen Jones - for lack of anything better to do embarked on an ambitious video project. A triptych of video pieces. Only two of the three were ever finished so they've never been seen before. A heavily edited version of the second appeared in a couple of gallery shows but this is their first time in public.

if i may be so bold as to make a suggestion - these are meant to be watched on full screen in a dark room with the music on loud or on headphones.

This is Ballad #1 from Latvia. That was my first time playing without relying on layering or loops, pretty much with just a guitar and amp on 10 and feedback from the Baltics to LEO. It did the brain good.

(That's the raw recording on a Zoom H4, and it may get incorporated into something else in the future.)

As always, beautiful work. All of you. I'm putting the finishing touches on my next album. In the meantime, I just finished mixing some FELT acapellas with FLAMING LIPS songs. It was a shitload of fun making this, I hope it's nearly as fun to listen to: